Speaker 1: If there’s one word that’s on every tech company’s mind lately, it’s ai, ai, ai, ai. There has been a rapid expansion of what AI systems can do, and over the past year you could find AI connected to all of our everyday technology, from composing emails to composing text messages. So what’s next for AI in 2024? Speaker 2: It’s as important as smartphones, as important as computers, as important as the internet probably, but nobody knows exactly how it’s going to be really important yet. So [00:00:30] All these companies are trying to experiment and see what sticks and what will be a great new business. Speaker 1: Experts say artificial intelligence will take off in the coming months, so buckle up. Speaker 1: OpenAI, the company behind Chat, GPT and Silicon Valley’s AI Rush leader for 2023 led the price to a new position in November. Developers can now create custom versions of chat GPT generators and open them [00:01:00] someone to use. It is essentially the AI version of an app store, which as we know has revolutionized the smartphone industry. And there’s a sense that an online store for GPT could be just as impactful for ai. These custom GPTs cover specific tasks, such as guidance on how to become a better writer or providing travel advice that narrows the focus could make AI creation tools more useful and practical to a wider audience. Speaker 2: If you think about your computer, your computer can do almost anything, but you use it in the form of applications, [00:01:30] Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop or Angry Birds or something. There’s a specific thing that you tap or open to do a specific job, and I think that’s what GPT promises is that it’s kind of a specific utility, and I think it’s going to make it much more accessible for people and much more useful for people . Speaker 1: Creating a new GPT requires no coding. It is built with simple language instructions, feed it knowledge by uploading PDF files, videos, photos or audio and direct the bot to create something based on it or tell it to search the web without the need for extensive [00:02:00] programming expertise, lowers the barrier to entry for anyone to do a GPT. Creators can also take a cut of their GPT revenue, but if AI is going to improve, it needs to communicate in a more human way. And to do that, it needs to go beyond just texting. GT’s latest trick is to speak the answers out loud. That means you could have it create a bedtime story and then read it to your kids, an idea that might someday sound less dystopian, but it’s not just talk. GPT is becoming more conversational. Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa has [00:02:30] joined the chat. Amazon is using artificial intelligence to help Alexa answer a question faster, and the idea is that it shouldn’t stumble if you change your wording mid-sentence, but perhaps the weirdest AI candidate in 2024 is what Google is cooking up a model called Gemini. It can analyze and learn from all kinds of media, including text, photos, video, and audio. Speaker 2: So he kind of has an inherent understanding of a lot more different types of content, and that’s really important. This is the way we work. We don’t just work with text. The text is important, [00:03:00] but we also work visually and with what we hear, and so this is an attempt to bring AI a little closer to how humans actually work. Speaker 1: Google says Gemini could look at a handwritten physics problem, find the mistake, and then explain how to fix it. Gemini launched on Pixel eight phones and Google’s AI chatbot was blocked. But what if AI isn’t just in the phones and websites you visit, but in something you wear? All eyes will be on Startup Humane, which has created a device called an AI pin that attaches to a shirt or collar. It works as a personal assistant with eyes [00:03:30] in the world around you, controlled by voice commands in place of a screen, a laser image is projected onto the palm of your hand. It sends text messages, plays music, takes pictures, makes calls and claims to be able to translate a conversation in real time into different languages as well. Can this be more useful than a smartphone? Speaker 2: I think that’s a bit more difficult. Most likely, AI will be integrated into the existing tools we already have. We’re not going to want to buy a specific AI tool. We will want to have AI in the tools we already use. Smartphones [00:04:00] they’re really useful things you can carry around, Speaker 1: And smartphones already have remarkable AI enhancements. Google’s pixelated smartphones come with features like the Magic Editor, which lets users move and delete people and objects and adjust the background right from your phone’s gallery. There’s also a feature called Best Take, which lets you change someone’s face if they blink for a shot where everyone is looking at the camera. Apple has also added AI features to the iPhone with things like Personal Voice, which can generate a voice that sounds like you after you train it on a series of prompts. See it as Speaker 3: The best text [00:04:30] site, please like and follow. Speaker 1: Okay, at first it sounded a lot like my accents, and then at the end I sounded like I was really bored. This is crazy. We’ll see artificial intelligence fleshed out in more devices and operating systems over the course of the year. Speaker 2: By far the most exciting things happen in a data center somewhere. When you have Dolly generate images from OpenAI servers, or when you use Chat GPT or Bard, these require large data centers. If we can get the chips to run fast enough in our laptops, we could potentially do that [00:05:00] with much faster response and more privacy for what we do. It would be a big change if Speaker 1: includes computer chips with AI accelerators like those announced by Intel in December 2023. AI has also made its way into social media content. I’ve come across some pretty convincing and frankly pretty cool AI-generated covers of songs on TikTok. And while it might be fun to style Harry as a Taylor Swift vocal style, there are some very serious concerns about people abusing AI to make it look like someone did or said something they never did. [00:05:30] it actually happened, which is why TikTok and YouTube tag videos with AI-generated content so you know what you’re watching isn’t actually real. And this is especially important during an election year. We’ve already seen AI-generated images of politicians like Donald Trump appearing to be arrested by a squad of New York City police officers. These photos were so convincing that they went viral on Twitter before they were debunked. Speaker 2: I worry that ai, which can create images on demand, is going to be used to create [00:06:00] images that we really basically can’t trust. And the place it’s most likely to happen is social media. That’s where you’ll see someone boost a post from a stranger you don’t know and you might think is real. It will be something shocking or powerful or emotional or surprising. And even if you think mentally that might not be true, it still goes straight to your brain and you think, oh my God, the president is being arrested. Speaker 1: Another thing you should prepare for is that companies are starting to charge more for their productive AI products. Right now. You have the choice to do so [00:06:30] use the free versions of platforms like Chat, GPT or you can subscribe to get more features. Companies are expected to push you to pay for more features as a way to take advantage of these systems. Speaker 2: I think part of the problem right now is that it’s still not really clear what value AI brings. If it turns out to be extremely useful for summarizing documents or creating new emails or creating slide shows, maybe your company will say, wow, that’s a big productivity boost worth paying for. But if it’s just fun to fool around, get better ideas for your kid’s birthday party, [00:07:00] that’s probably not something you’ll want to spend $20 a month on. Speaker 1: And if AI can prove to be worth paying for, it can still become a monthly subscription to a family budget. What developments in artificial intelligence excite you most or stress you out? 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